>>Peli - Indeed, for an advertising server, it makes more sense to include that >>in every application separately, for the reasons you mentioned. I could >>suggest the following…and all applications can access that one content >>provider. Would this sound like a suitable solution?<< I didn’t think of just doing the synchronisation using intents (as they support a one-to-many relationship between components). I’ll do a proof of concept on Monday to see if this works. It’ll be a bit of a hassle for the guy who has to incorporate this into their application, but it will do until Android is improved to support components. ;-)
Thank you kindly!! >>Mark Murphy - Since the content in question is going on /sdcard (right? >>right?!?), solve the problem by managing the space, not managing the >>components. Since you already require each application to have your own code >>anyway, just use a regular Java class to access the /sdcard data store and >>dump the ContentProvider interface.<< >>Peli - Ad images and banners should be placed on the SD card, but private >>data for accounting (number of times an ad had been shown, click- >>through-rate, last ad shown, etc.) could be stored in a content provider, and >>it makes sense to share this content provider among several applications >>installed (e.g. so that the end user is not presented the same ad in every >>application they launch).<< While Mark Murphy’s solution could be made to work, communicating outside of the OS would be quite ugly in terms of the security and the hardware assumptions which would need to be made. I also expect the security regime and file permissions to morph somewhat over the next couple of Android releases, potentially breaking my OS bypass hack. I’ll put this idea down as a plan B, thanks anyway!! I think I have enough ideas to get this to work now, and will post my results to the thread and blog early next week. Thank you Android Developers. :-D Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
